Ginger, The Alternative Painkiller With No Side Effect

By Kyle J, Norton

Ginger is one of the natural whole food recommended by many scientists for the treatment of muscle pain and soreness.

Muscle pain is a common condition can arise by a number of factors including injury or overexertion, infections of soft tissues, or inflammation.

Another factor such as the flu may also cause muscle pain.

Medication used for the treatment of cholesterol such as statins, fibromyalgia and under active thyroidism is also associated with the onset of muscle pain.

Swelling, redness, or fever are also most common symptoms accompanied by muscle pain.

Acute pain triggered by the nervous system, alerting you to possible injury.

Chronic muscle pain is a pain that lasts more than 3 months. Most cases of chronic muscle are caused by a syndrome of chronic myofascial pain (CMP), a painful condition that affects the muscles and the sheath of the tissue that surround the muscles.

The syndrome processes a most highly sensitive and notable symptom associated with the areas within the muscles that can also stimulate the pain in the other area of the body.

In contrast to the  chronic myofascial pain (CMP), fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) also cause chronic muscle pain due to brain disorder in processing pain signalings 

Ginger (Zingiber officinale) or ginger root, the second superfood used for thousands of years by mankind, is the genus Zingiber, belonging to the family Zingiberaceae, native to Tamil.

The root has been used in traditional and Chinese medicine to treat dyspepsia, gastroparesis, constipation, edema, difficult urination, colic, etc.

In the reaffirming the ginger root pain-relief properties, researchers at the Old Dominion University launched a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to determine whether ginger root supplementation reduces muscle soreness and dysfunction from downhill running. 

Thirty-two runners (10 women, 22 men) included in the trial were pair-matched and randomized to 1.425 g/day of ginger root or placebo for 5 days.

Ang a 40-minute downhill (-7.5%) run was completed on day 3. Before supplementation and at various points throughout a 5-day protocol, muscle soreness, pain-pressure threshold, vertical jump, and 1.5-mile run performance.

Soreness while jogging likely increased to a lesser degree with ginger root from baseline. Ginger root had a possible small benefit on the vertical jump from baseline to day 5 but no meaningful impact on 1.5-mile run performance.

No significant differences in adverse events were observed during the experiment between treatments.

The results suggested that ginger root possibly has moderate beneficial effects on running-induced soreness but irrelevant effects on recovery of physical performance.

Dr. Wilson PB, said, “Ginger represents one option for runners looking to temporarily reduce pain”.

Furthermore, in the findings, a natural ingredient for the treatment of inflammation and pain induced by delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS), a joint study led by the Shiraz University, was launched to examine the effect of ginger extract on the biochemical and functional symptom of delayed onset muscle soreness.

36 healthy female subjects included in the study were recruited by intra dormitory calls and randomly divided into 3 groups, including ginger intake 1 hour before exercise (GIBE), ginger intake immediately after exercise (GIAE) and placebo group (PL).

Participants consumed capsules contain 60 mg of ginger extract (the equivalent of 2 g dried ginger powder) or placebo before and after exercise. The exercise protocol consisted of a 20-minute step test using a 46cm step at a rate of 15 steps per minute.

Ginger intake immediately after exercise (GIAE) showed a significant reduction of pain compared to GIAE after 24 and 48h of EE and GIAE compared to PL.

The inflammatory cytokine IL-6 changed significantly in GIBE compared to PL (p<0.05) after 1, 24, and 48h after EE. 

These results indicated that 2 grams of ginger may have anti-inflammation and analgesic effect on DOMS.

Taken altogether, ginger root may be considered a functional painkiller kitchen spice for the deduction of muscle pain and soreness if it is intake 1 hour before exercise.

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Author Biography
Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrition, All right reserved)
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published online, including worldwide health, ezine articles, article base, health blogs, self-growth, best before it’s news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
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Sources
(1) A Randomized Double-Blind Trial of Ginger Root for Reducing Muscle Soreness and Improving Physical Performance Recovery Among Experienced Recreational Distance Runners.
Wilson PB. (PubMed)

(2) Acute effects of ginger extract on biochemical and functional symptoms of delayed onset muscle soreness by Hoseinzadeh K1, Daryanoosh F2, Baghdasar PJ3, Alizadeh H. (PubMed)